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Im not DSIS is surely?

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catgirl1976 · 15/12/2013 19:29

DSis is hosting Christmas this year

She is wonderful person (and great cook) put totally disorganised and last minute

She still hasn't ordered a turkey and when I mentioned it to her tonight said "Oh I'll get round to it. It will be fine"

THEN she said "I might get a boned and rolled joint. No one eats the legs"

You can't have a joint for Christmas. You need to see the bird in all it's glory looking amazing. It's part of Christmas

She'll be saying she isn't doing pigs in blankets or Yorkshire puds next

Shock
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crazykat · 15/12/2013 21:51

You'd hate it here op we're not having turkey at all, none of us are particularly fond of it so we're having chicken instead.

We are having homemade Yorkshire puddings though, before dinner with gravy.

MiniSoksMakeHardWork · 15/12/2013 21:54

Yabu. We get a boned and rolled joint from butchers. Fits in oven, carves easily and cooks beautifully. Even easier to reheat in gravy on Boxing Day as no faffing stripping the meat.

As for yorkshires... Yabu there too. But I do like them with a roast.

ChillieJeanie · 15/12/2013 22:09

Last year I accidentally reopened an argument (minor/light-hearted) in my Dad's house that had occurred on Christmas day. I was visiting on Boxing Day, the food was the leftovers from Christmas dinner, and I asked if there was any bread sauce left over. Dad's wife hadn't made any. Shock Dad had not been impressed.

timidviper · 15/12/2013 23:13

I love the idea of stuffing the turkey legs! This could change my life!

I'm getting a bit overexcited now as Sunday Brunch did sprouts with beetroot, chestnuts, chilli and orange today which looked rather nice even to a sprout hater like me

We don't have Yorkshire puddings but do have the American delicacy of mashed sweet potatoes topped with marshmallow with ours Shock

Pancakeflipper · 15/12/2013 23:17

Maryz - I guess frozen sprouts would spoil our early February fun when the home stinks of rotting trumps and we then find a lurking rotting sprout in the pantry.

Now have we had the paper serviette versus napkin debate. And how do you fold them? Swans, hats, doggies ?

ThePlatypusAlwaysTriumphs · 15/12/2013 23:25

Well, I gave up doing turkey years ago- totally overpriced at Christmas, which makes me cross, and noone in our house rates it. I do Gordon Ramsey's Beef Wellington at Christmas now- did it once and it was such a hit I was never allowed to do anything else since!

I am, however, a bit anal about Christmas, so I kinda get where you are coming from- my dad keeps offering to do it, but I won't let him, because I know it wouldn't be "right". DH and I joke about when our kids are grown and we go to them for Christmas- dd1 will be meticulous, I think, but when it is dd2's turn we are expecting spam and chips!

Mushypeasandchipstogo · 15/12/2013 23:36

As earlier poster said in Ireland you just have to have turkey and ham but there are never any pigs in blankets. Sad

BlackeyedShepherdswatchsheep · 15/12/2013 23:37

yanbu. at all.

commiserations that you have a sister who does not know how to do christmas properly. Xmas Shock

Mushypeasandchipstogo · 15/12/2013 23:38

Incidentally Yorkshire pudding. WTF ? Really?

ceres · 16/12/2013 06:20

mushy - no need to feel sad for us irish with our turkey and ham.

tbh i would much prefer a whole ham (baked with a mustard and brown sugar glaze and studded with cloves) than a few bits of sausage wrapped in rashers. i really don't see the appeal.

we also stuff the turkey with two types of stuffing - one bread based and one sausage meat so we certainly don't miss out by not having sausages. and the stuffings give the turkey meat a lovely flavour.

maryz - i am glad to hear the cocktail sausages are an addition. i can't imagine Christmas dinner without turkey and ham. i also think your mum sounds great on gravy watch and kidnapping the carcass! only thing i disagree on is the sprouts, i love 'em and they are def not just for Christmas!

ziggiestardust · 16/12/2013 07:49

Now people are mentioning it... Why DO you cross the bottom of sprouts?

Coumarin · 16/12/2013 07:55

Yabu. Unless you're in a Dickens novel, no-one 'needs' to see the whole turkey on the table. ;)

Always M&S turkey crown here. No faff, comes with the bacon and stuffing already in situ and is never dry and gaggy.

Yanbu regarding Yorkshires though. I'd have them with everything if I could so, definitely having them on the day.

Coumarin · 16/12/2013 07:58

Although whilst we're here, what the hell is the story with bread sauce? Looks like wallpaper paste, texture of semolina. I'd never heard of it until my first Christmas with DH.

pianodoodle · 16/12/2013 08:01

Yorkshire pudding?

We just get a turkey crown now it still looks nice on the table :)

pianodoodle · 16/12/2013 08:03

Although whilst we're here, what the hell is the story with bread sauce? Looks like wallpaper paste, texture of semolina. I'd never heard of it until my first Christmas with DH.

Same here - it looks like boak :(

LIZS · 16/12/2013 08:03

Also in terms of fitting all the roasted food into the oven for a large group a joint would be much more compact than a turkey.

MajesticWhine · 16/12/2013 09:03

You cross the bottom of sprouts so that they cook in the middle quickly and you don't need to boil them for 15 minutes until they are mushy and vile

Mushypeasandchipstogo · 16/12/2013 14:49

Ceres - I don't feel sorry for the Irish with their turkey and ham but I do miss my pigs in blankets! Also why do the Irish eat their Christmas meal so late? I am starving by 6 pm when my MIL sits us down to eat or is it just my DH family?

Original poster
catgirl1976 · 16/12/2013 15:45

DSis has caved and ordered a full turkey

I bet I get coal for Christmas from her Grin

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ceres · 16/12/2013 20:20

mushy - we don't eat late, 3pm is the latest we have sat down to Christmas dinner. I suppose it varies although I don't know many who would eat as late as 6pm on Christmas day. I would have eaten my own body weight in chocolate by then!

as to the pigs in blankets - why don't you suggest to your in laws that they do a few? they sound fairly easy, I'm guessing you just chuck them in the oven. alternatively maybe you could smuggle some in to snack on and keep you going while you wait for dinner!

Mushypeasandchipstogo · 16/12/2013 21:27

Ceres I have eaten my own body weight ( and more ) by then I assure you!

Jellymum1 · 16/12/2013 21:37

Good job you are not my ds its my turn this year to host christmas and i have booked a table at the local curry house!

Merguez · 16/12/2013 21:41

There is no place for Yorkshire pudding with Turkey - really.

Plenty of other good accompaniments.

LineRunner · 16/12/2013 21:42

Hello catgirl how the devil are you?

I am teaching DS to cook Christmas dinner. We are currently mastering the frying of burgers, so there may be a way to go yet.

cantbelievemyeyes · 16/12/2013 22:16

Yorkshire pudding goes with everything. Especially with more yorkshire puddings, and a pan of gravy to dip them into.

Crossing the bottoms of sprouts is not necessary, and was probably invented as some sort of sick joke keep the person cooking trapped in the kitchen for as long as possible. Husband blanches them, then cooks them up with chestnuts and bacon.

Any turkey is great as long as it's not overcooked. Like any meat.

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